Who says stompboxes are just for guitarists? The easy-to-use BOSS VE-20 has been designed from the ground up for singers, featuring some of the finest vocal-effects technology on the market. With the click of a footswitch, you can instantly add lush vocal layers and harmonies to your singing, add realtime pitch-correction, and you can show your creative side with special effects like distortion, radio, and strobe. You can even create loops and layers in real time with the onboard Phrase Looper. Perform anywhere with the VE-20 since it runs on AC or battery power (sold separately).

Simple qualityThe BOSS VE-20 vocal effects pedal takes your voice to a whole new level with essential effects in an incredibly user-friendly interface that lets you take total control of your vocal sound. Simply dial in your favorite setting and sing with no programming required. The VE-20 is a practical vocal effects processor even for first-timers. Of course, if you want to roll your sleeves up and create, the Boss VE-20 has a variety of editing tools onboard too.

Harmony factoryAdd lush harmonies to your lead vocals instantly as you sing. Select the harmony interval of your choice, or create multipart stacks, such as upper third and lower fifth, and save them for instant recall. You can also thicken your vocals with Double Track. Best of all, this BOSS pedal is incredibly easy to use: there's no need for programming, and you don't need to input notes from a keyboard as you do with a Vocoder; you simply sing and let the VE-20 vocal pedal do the rest.

Phrase loopSing, record, loop, and overdub with the onboard Phrase Looper, inherited from Boss's popular RE-20XL Loop Station. You get 38 seconds of mono record time to loop and layer phrases, and you can do it all in real time onstage. From doo-wop to human-beatbox, this tool will wow audiences.

Special effectsIn addition to its harmony and pitch-correction tools, the BOSS VE-20 vocal pedal offers a colorful and expressive collection of special effects, including: electric, robot, strobe, distortion, chorus, and reverb.

Road-tough designWith the same solid-metal construction as other BOSS stompboxes, the VE-20 is built to last. Its footprint is identical to Boss Twin-Series pedals, ensuring that it will fit perfectly into existing multi-pedal BOSS pedalboards and travel cases.

To sum up, this unit is the easiest to operate/tweak of all the vocal harmonizers, especially since it offers the capacity to be operated by foot. Clearly Boss had singers in mind...Read complete review

To sum up, this unit is the easiest to operate/tweak of all the vocal harmonizers, especially since it offers the capacity to be operated by foot. Clearly Boss had singers in mind when they designed this instead of requiring the singers also be guitarists or keyboardists like Digitech and TC Helicon.30 factory presets and 50 user editable patches make this unbeatable. This can do an added 3rd [for an Everly Brothers type vocal sound] an added fifth [for a Simon and Garfunkel sound], added 3rd +5th [for a basic 3-part harmony, an added 3rd + 6th [For an Eagles type sound], plus 2-, 3-, and 6- voice leads. Just having these available makes having this worthwhile. Add in all the vocal FX like Flanging, Chorus, Delay, and Reverb, plus some cool FX like "Strobe" [I'm going to have to work up an arrangement of the 60s classic "Crimson and Clover"] and "Robot" [Lurch sings the best of Rogers and Hammerstein], and it's not only a serious harmonizer, but something to have some fun with.An even bigger plus is that it tracks the harmony parts off the vocal input without having to plug in a guitar or keyboard to provide reference tones.Although this is the first Boss unit I've ever purchased, I have a friend who has been using the similarly constructed RC-20 Loop Station for the past three years without a problem.Similarly priced to vocal harmonizers from Digitech and TC Helicon but I feel this unit has more flexibility--along with the capacity to operate it by foot.

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This unit has a lot of features for it's price range, but don't be fooled a lot is left out. The reverb for example only has settings for Type, Size, and Level -...Read complete review

This unit has a lot of features for it's price range, but don't be fooled a lot is left out. The reverb for example only has settings for Type, Size, and Level - there is no high/low cut or dampening at all so you're left with overly bright reverb that doesn't sit in with music. The Radio effect has no settings to adjust at all! It's just on or off. "Dynamics", which I'm guessing is compression, only has two settings - Depth and Enhance. That is way too limited for any real use. Add to all this the vocal harmonies sound incredibly fake. I had the Vocal Live 2 and the harmonies actually sounded quite real.

You get what you pay for. If you haven't a care in the world to actually tweak your sound and if you don't care if the vocals somehow don't seem to sit right in the music being there are so little options to adjust then you'll be fine with this unit. For it's price you get a lot, and you can stomp up and down patch numbers, but IMO what good is any of that if you can't fix what is wrong with the vocal sound since there are no options to do so? If you can save a bit more look for another unit. If you don't need harmonies I think you'd even be better off running through the effects of a guitar floor processor.

My VE-20 was delivered at the end of a practice session before packing up to play a gig. I took two minutes to read the manual to learn how to control the doubler, reverb, and chorus functions. It was amazing and I used it all night. People told me it was the best I ever sounded.

I'm actually using this on a horn (trumpet) not vocals doing a doubling and simple harmony effect to use live. After trying a few products out there (all were either too feature light or too feature heavy) this is the one! The only downside I could see is that if I were using it as a floor pedal as designed (I'm not as I have it stationed on a table at hand level) it could be awkward to change programs during a gig.

I like the price of this versatile unit. I just wish it were more simple to setup for what I want to do. Still, it's not anywhere near lame. I bought a Condition 2 and it was brand new, packaging, manual, and all. MF sure does rate stuff more than fair when you buy used. I just wished I could use this as a talk box too, for my guitar! Great effects for being a home recorder who want that backing sound. Cool for club and DJ voices, House, etc...

This unit sounds great. But it has to be tweaked whenever You play a song in different keys. It would be best to use it with a on/off pedal, so that you can have it within reach to make the necessary key change adjustments when performing live. If you're looking for a no hassle harmony pedal,go with a pedal that works off your guitar. This pedal is best used for studio recording.

The looping function is horrendous. It has no start/stop, but it does have record/overdub/erase. Lack of true start/stop functionality makes it impossible to sync the starts of your loops:(. They also give you only 38 seconds to loop and there's no progress indicator to let you know how much time you have left. And there's no way you can record longer than 38 seconds or record to removable memory. In fact since there's no true start/stop functionality,, all you can do after recording/overdubbing is to erase:(. Having said that, it's an outstanding live vocal effects processor. Just make sure to connect it to a non-Boss/Roland looper that has a true start/stop functionality such as the lowly Fender G-DEC 3 Thirty with the ULT-4 foot switch that somehow manages to thoroughly outclass the Boss/Roland loopers.

I have owned this product for over 3 years and have used it a lot for rehearsal and live gigs. I. Use very basic functions because I do not need or want special effects on my voice. The manual is very limited on describing how to adjust settings.